Celeste Bradley is the New York Times bestselling author of the Liar's Club series and the Heiress Brides trilogy. Since she began writing in 1999, she has twice been nominated for a Rita Award by the Romance Writers of America and was recently named Historical Storyteller of the Year by Romantic Times Book Reviews.

When not writing, Celeste enjoys reading, collage, gardening and hiking in the Sandia Mountains near her home in New Mexico. Celeste does not enjoy housekeeping, doing dishes, weeding or rewriting bad chapters. Then again, who does?